Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14660, Solomon Dwinel, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Divinel Solomon
W.14660
or
Quinnell
Hannah
CONTENTS

12559
Massachusetts Roll
Solomon Durivel
Sergeant
Mass. Line — 15 Months
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th of Sept r 1818 and sent to Edward D. Bangs Esq r Worcester Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Sept r — 1818 — 37.06 Semi-ann. all ee ending 4 th Mar. 1819 48.00
Arrears 4 mo 19/30 $85.06
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

1500
Act to 8 M. Partin Aug 15 th 43
Mary Jackson's
widow of Solomon Jackson
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 20 th day of 1830 at Washington in the State of D.C. who was a Colonel in the Army, commanded by Captain ... of the ... commanded by Col. ... in the ... line for ... days ...
Inscribed on the Roll of ... at the rate of 90 Dollars 38 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th day of March 1830 and last ...
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1838 $234.70 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. 39, 46.94 $281.64
Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by A.C. Adison Clerk. Book 7 Vol. 1st Page 82 Issued from 4-15-38

Simon Duine and Hanna J. G. - both of Sutton were joined in Marriage by the Rev. Clarence Chaplin Pastor of the L. Chh in Sutton
A true copy of record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows April 1 1933 - April first seventeen hundred eighty three
Witness Dan. Hume Clerk of the Town of Sutton in the County of Worcester Mass.
Sutton Sept 1 1933
I Dan. Hume above named do hereby certify that I had the Office of Clerk in the Town of Sutton and State of Mass. and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me
Dan. Hume Clerk of the Town of Sutton sworn before me
Earl Clarke Justice of the Peace
Sutton Sept 3 rd 1933

State of Massachusetts County of Middlesex
I Solomon Dwinel a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Millbury in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, in Novr 1775
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to April 10 1780
as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Captain Bartholomew Woodbury's company in Col. Learned's regiment for three months, and immediately after I belonged to a company under said Woodbury in Col. Holman's regiment, Genl. Fellows brigade for five months - then in the year 1777 I belonged to said Woodbury's company, in Col. Cushing's regiment, for 6 months and was discharged at New York - then in March 1778 I belonged as a sergeant in Capt Lamb's company in Col. Wade's regiment for one year from that time - then in 1779 the 10 July I enlisted and belonged to a company under Capt. Clark's company after which came on and by his discharge in the 8th Independent regiment. Col. Brimfield and that I left the service on Decr 1780 having been honorably discharged from all my respective engagements - which discharge is lodged in the Secretary's office of the commonwealth and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of 60 years - & I have served as above in the army of the united States for 4 years in the Massachusetts line
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Solomon Dwinel
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 16 th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 18 pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me,
Judge E. G. Crompton western Conference the abovenamed Solomon Dwinel and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of said Court, the day of the date aforesaid.
Ebenezer D. Bangs

I asa Goodell of Milbury in the State of Massachusetts County of Worcester testify & say that I knew when Solo- mon Dwinell enlisted in July 1780 in the Continental Service I being one of a Class that had him to go - he went & returned - and I then believed & still believe he served out his term of time there
Aza Goodell
Worcester 18 th April 18, 1818 Aza Goodell made oath to the truth of the above depn by him subscribed before me Edw Bangs Judge aswittin
Solomon Dwinell

Solo. D. Winkel Millbury
Admitted
on roll 1870-1875 from 1877-9 to 1880-1881 from 1882-1885 to 1887-1888 to 1890-1891 = 5 on 1890 1891-1892
on roll 1893-1894 Capt. 1895-1896 1897-1898 to 1899-1900 Sergeant

commence the of Massachusetts County of Worcester ss.
As the twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven before her Boston fully of the limit of Probate for said County of Worcester Hannah Pillsbury a resident of Wellesley formerly Sutton in said County aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn crediting to her ditto on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 14. 1836, entitled the Act explanatory of said Act passed March 3 1831.
That she was married to Jonathan Gould of Sutton in said County who was an active Sergeant in the Army of the Rev- olution and served as many as the count- ry State as follows; first at the commencement of the war he was a minute man in the company of Capt. Andrew Root and she thinks in the Regiment of Col. Woodbury and turned out on the Alarm at Lexington

time when he had got done to Newbury, he enlisted for eight months, and did not leave out of the service till the expiration of that time which then was the next winter after the war commenced. Then Concord State did his office were not his the any documentary evidence as to any of his revolutionary services. Then next spring he went out to New York and was there once before to clear the City out before the British took it, but as to the nature of this service the cannot state. He had a team but whether it was his own or a Government team, is not now not known. He thinks he was given at that time more than two months but the cannot state certainly. After this time he was much employed at home receiving money, and he received a commission from General Hancock as a Captain in the militia. But he did not go into active service again till the latter part of the war. In the year 1781 in the month of June, he went to Providence and joined the unit boys, and was promoted from there to the South. He had some service on the

Capacity of foreign master Captain. He knew more his errors as she always understood, lovingly learned. They proceeded to the South where her first husband was at Yorktown at the time of the surrender of Cornwallis on the 19th of October 1781. Her husband who has always been infamous and wicked believe, was taken with the small pox at their home and died soon after at Williamsburg in Virginia. She does not know but one person living who was with her since husband in the service, and that was a brother whose name by the name of Green. Some Green lives somewhere in the State of New York but she does not know where. It is now possible for her to state more particularly her said husband's name, and she now ups for the first time to the rolls in the new Department as to the description mentioned.
She further declares that her mother's name was Hannah Singleton the daugh- ter of Anna Singleton born of said her line, who was a great likely mother's name.

within the Massachusetts General Court as a Senator and Representative for four years and was much engaged in other public service. She was married to the said Jonathan Gould at New Bedford by the Rev. Ebenezer Chaplin on the third tenth day of January, but she cannot state the year. She knows however, that she has been married long enough to have three children by her said husband before the war broke out. That her husband the aforesaid Jonathan Gould died at the city below at New Bedford on the thirteenth day of October in the year since been her husband more eighty one; that she has afterwards married to Solomon Dyer wife of said Dyer who died on the twenty sixth day of July in the year eighteen hun- dred and thirty; that she was a widow on the 14th of July 1836 and has remained a widow ever since the death of her said last husband, as will more fully appear by reference to the proofs hereto annexed. She however declines a further as a widow of her said first husband from and after the fourth day of March eighteen hundred and thirty six for that from that time a further notice the Act of July 7, 1838, as the widow of her said second husband.  and assume the right of the estate from me the within copy of the last of which is only 
Hannah G. Dyer

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Worcester.
On this fourteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the Court of Probate for said County of Worcester Hasside Goude, a resident of Mendon in said County, aged sixty two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Con- gress passed July 4. 1836 and the Act supplementary of said Act passed March 3. 1837.
That he, together with John Goude of Springfield in the State of Vermont, Jonathan Goude of or near Rutland in the same State, and Hannah Allen of Wolfe in the State of New Hampshire, are the surviving children of Hannah Dunnick late a prisoner of the United States, since Jonathan Goude her first husband, who was a soldier and orderly Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, and served as will fully and par- ticularly appears in the Application of the said Hannah for a pension under the Acts of 1836 and 1837. The said Hasside Goude is also Administrator of Hannah Dunnick.
He further declares that he well believes that his said father and mother were married before the Revolutionary war, as he in her said Application hath

Set forth, That his said father, Jonathan Gould died on the thirteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one; That she was afterwards married to Solomon Dummer who was also a Soldier of the Revolution, who died on the sixth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, and by virtue of their wills she received a portion under the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838. That she was a widow on the fourth day of July 1838, and remained a widow at the time of her death which happened on the twenty sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two, as will more fully appear by reference to the proofs referred to and herewith preserved.
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year first above
written. Not as mine.
Sheffield Court
M c A. D. D. H. S. City of Cambridge Asst. of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Israel H. Barton is the Judge of said Court, duly commissioned and qualified - and that his signature on the preceding page is genuine.
I further certify, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that Hannah (Dwinell) late of Milbury, in said County, a Pensioner of the United States, died on the twenty sixth day of February, A.D. 1842. that she never was married after the death of her second husband, Solomon Dwinell - and that she left as children by her first husband, Jonathan Gould, who now survive her, Abigail Gould, of Mendwick in said County of Worcester, John Gould, of Springfield, in the State of Vermont, Jonathan Gould, of or near Rutland, in the same State, and Hannah Allen, of N'keepsake, in the State of New Hampshire.
And I further certify, that the said Abigail Gould is the Administrator of the estate of the said Hannah Dwinell, deceased.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court the fifteenth day of June, one thousand, eight hundred and forty three.
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register

Pay
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14660
Hannah Drinell Widow of Solomon Drinell Prison Rev. War
Act: July 7 th 1838
Index:—Vol. a , Page 204
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1509 Massachusetts
Mannah Dwinell widow of Solomon Dwinell,
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 th March 1818 and who died on the 26 th July 1830 of Worcester Co., in the State of Mass. who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt., commanded by Col Learned in the [blank]. time for 13 months, 8 23 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. free rolls at the rate of 45 Dollars 88 Cents per annum to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of Dec 1838 and sent to Mrs. Barton Worcester, Mass.
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept. 38; 114 70 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Nov. 39. 22 94 $137 64
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2 Page 82

Hannah Dwinell Mass. act 4 July 1836 Sett. in Barton, Oct o 1838 do. 22 Nov 1838, do. 20 Dec 1838 See claim act 7 July 1838
act 4 July 1836 " 3 March 1837
Jonathan Gould 75. A. Elliott capt. J. Bolster 76 went to N.Y. with a team
See p. 80

1509 V 1281. Hannah Quinell widow of Solomon Massachusetts.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, ss.
I, Charles G. Prouty, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Nathl. Weston is the Judge of said Court, duly commissioned and qualified - and that his signature to the paper hereto annexed is genuine.
I further certify, that Edmund Clark and Abraham G. Randall are Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified - and that their signatures to the papers hereto annexed are true and genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court, this sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-eight.
Chas. G. Prouty, Register.

Worcester, b. State of Massachusetts Bay. By the Honorable Lewis Lincoln Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills, and for granting letters of administration on the estates of Persons deceased, having Goods, Chattels, Rights or Credits in the County of Worcester, within the State above- said.
To Hannah Gould of Sutton in the County and State aforesaid Widow, Greeting. Whereas Jonathan Gould late of Sutton in the County of Worcester, deceased, having while he lived and at the time of his decease, Goods, Chattels, Rights or Credits in the County aforesaid, lately died intestate, whereby the Power of administering Administration, and full disposition of all and singular the Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits of the said deceased, and also the hearing, examining, and allowing the account of such Administration, doth appertain unto me: Trusting therefore in your care and Fidelity, I do by these presents, commit unto you full Power to administer all and singular the Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits of the said deceased, and well and faithfully to discharge of the same according to Law, and also to ask, gather, levy, receive and receive all and whatsoever Credits of the said deceased, which to him while he lived, and at the time of his decease, did appertain, and to pay all Debts in which the said deceased stood bound, so far as his Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits can extend according to the value thereof: And to make a true and perfect inventory of all

and inventories the Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits, and to exhibit the same into the Registry of the Court of Probates for the County by advertisement or before the Seventh Day of April next ensuing: And to render a plain and true Account of your said Administration upon Cattle at or before the Seventh Day of January which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three. And I do hereby certify that true and upright have administered all and distributed the Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits aforesaid.
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of the said Court of Probate. Sealed at Worcester the Seventh Day of January Annoque domi- ni 1782.
By Order of the Honorable Judge Lewis Lincoln Jr. Probate Entered from the Original for Joseph Wheeler Heir.
A copy from the Records of the Court of Probate of the County of Worcester
Attest. Chas. G. Dole, Register

Another of the said account of Solomon Principal of a Principal Second for nearly Danmark would be administration in her right on the estate of Jonathan Gould late of Sutton in said County deceased. Said accountants having in advance the sum of £ 60. 18. 12. 1 charge themselves with the proceeds of the sale of the said estate since the order of Court commencing to the sum of £ 368. 0. 0  Also pays allowance as follows viz To the Heirs Beneficiaries £ 0. 17. 0 To the Chase Constable 5. 10. 3 To Sarah Dike 3. 0. 0 To Sarah Dike 0. 6. 6 To Sarah Dike 4. 4. 3 To John Dene 0. 6. 0 To Lawrence Dene 3. 5. 7 To William Dene 1. 16. 0 To John Charlton 0. 7. 0 To John Holland 17. 8. 5  In the trouble of administering Including fees in the Probate Office 11. 11. 0 In advance 60. 18. 10. 1 In my further trouble of administering 5. 11. 0  £ 100. 11. 10 264. 15. 1. 3
December 15. Sep. 2. 1783 Personally appeared Solomon and Denmark Principal Adminis- trators as above and made solemn oath to the truth of the above account and pro- ceedings as to the payment therein mentioned. I allow thereof by which it ap-

There is now a balance in these hands the sum of £ 264. 13. 1. 3. the Widow being intitled to the improvement of one third of the real estate exceeding £ 100. There are debts £ 112. 1. 9 to be divided among the creditors said being insolvent.
Joseph Dorr C. Probate. Exhibit from the original in Joseph Dorr's estate.
A copy from the Records of the Court of Probate of the County of Worcester.
Attest. Chas. J. Rantiffs, Register.

32/89 Howard D. Smith
Ira Garton Northeast Mass.
Sept 10. 1881

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, ss.
I, Charles G. Prouty, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Isaac Burton is the Judge of said Court duly commissioned and qualified - and that his signature to the papers hereto annexed are genuine.
I further certify, that Abraham G. Randall is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified that Edward Clarke is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified - and that the signatures of the said Randalls and Clarke to the papers hereto annexed, are true and genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, this sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and thirty eight.
Chas. G. Prouty, Register

I Eliphalet Holman of Ward in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do declare and testify that Solomon Dwinel an inhabitant of Sutton in the county aforesaid who was commonly called Solomon Dunnel and his name commonly so spelt, did enlist into the Continental Army in the forepart of July in the year 1779 for the term of nine months and did join the Army in Capt. Hartshorn company in Col. Jackson's regiment in the Massachusetts line and did serve the said term of nine months and was regularly discharged in April 1780. — The foregoing I testify that I was personally knowing to, being myself a soldier in the aforesaid company during said term. —
Eliphalet Holman
Commonwealth of Massachusetts } Worcester ss June 27 th 1818 Then personally appeared Eliphalet Holman, and being solemnly cautioned to testify the whole truth and nothing but the truth, did make oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed Before me Aaron Peirce Jut. of the peace
I Ameriah Brigham of Millbury in the county of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify of firm and declare, that Solomon Dwinel who was usually called Solomon Dunnel and his name so spelt, did enlist into the Continental Army from the town of Sutton in the Month of July 1779 and march from the neighbourhood where I lived professedly to serve the term of nine months and in the month of April 1780, did return again into the neighbourhood
Ameriah Brigham
Commonwealth of Massachusetts } Worcester ss June 27 th 1818 Then Ameriah Brigham personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed Before me Aaron Peirce Jut. of the peace
I certify that Eliphalet Holman & Ameriah Brigham above named are men I personally know and am confident men of undoubted veracity and I have no doubt of the truth of their statements Aaron Peirce

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, ss.
I, Abijah Bigelow, clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, within and for said county of Worcester, Do certify, That Aaron Pease, Godine, before whom the within affidavits have been made, is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that his name, subscribed thereto, is his own proper signature. —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this third day of July, A.D., 1818.
Abijah Bigelow (Clerk)

Concord, Mass. June 18, 1843. J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir,
Enclosed is the Declaration H. of Hester Gould in behalf of herself, and brothers & Sisters, for the pension due them in right of their late mother Hannah Darnell who was a pensioner under the act of July 1838. You will perceive from the papers in the case, that Mrs. Darnell was entitled also to a pension under the acts of July 14. '36 & Mar. 37, by virtue of the services of her first husband Jonathan Gould. Since her surviving children, by Mr. Gould, now respectfully ask a reconsideration of their claim in right of their mother, for the pension to which she has acquired a vested right under the acts aforesaid, from Mar. 14. '31 to March 14. '36, when her five years pension commenced. I am aware of the decision of the department adverse to this claim, as indicated by your letter to me of Oct. 20, 1838; But the children of Mrs. Darnell think its jus- tice so obvious, that they venture to ask a reconsideration of the question. They readily waive, as their mother waived, any right to two simultaneous pensions. They further claim nothing for the five years pensioned for by the act of July 14. '38. But a right to a pension under the act

of July 4. '36 having notice, upon the passage of the Act of the 7 th July '38, they are unable to see how rights under the former act, should be defeated by the latter. Suppose Mrs. Quimby, previous to the passage of the act of 7 th July '38, had obtained her pension under the Acts of July '36 & Mar. '37, is there any doubt but that she might have relinquished that pension, and claimed under the Act of July '38? Once if so, why should her neglect to claim a pension under the Acts of July '36 and Mar. '37, till after the passage of the Act of July '38, affect her or her Children's rights under the first Acts? But if the views of the Department should be still adverse to the claim of the applicant, so far as relates to the pension previous to the 4 th March '36, no objection can be entertained to the claim from the 4 th March '36, when the Act of July 7. '38 expired, since the 26 th February '42 when applicant's mother deceased. Please let the Certificate be forwarded to my care. You will perceive that you have both the names of the Children of Mrs. Quimby, and the name of her Administrator. If the Certificate can issue to the Admin r , it will be desirable for all concerned.
I am Very Respectfully
M c M. Barton

Solomon Dummer of Milbury in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts do hereby certify that I am the oldest son since birth of Solomon Dummer since Hannah Dummer his wife. I have always understood that my said mother was formerly the widow of Jonathan Gustin the late the military man. My father the aforesaid Solomon Dummer died on the twenty sixth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and my said mother has now been since her said husband's death.
..... of Massachusetts hereby certify that I am the oldest son since birth of Solomon Dummer since Hannah Dummer his wife. I have always understood that my said mother was formerly the widow of Jonathan Gustin the late the military man. My father the aforesaid Solomon Dummer died on the twenty sixth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and my said mother has now been since her said husband's death.
See Boston July 19 Patriot June 1833
I the said Solomon Dummer do further certify that I have in my custody

an ancient account that of my said father in the latter part of which I have in his hands riding or riding of his own accord his wife's family amongst these records I find the following to wit, Capt. Jonathan Goude Son of Thomas & Hannah his wife that the record in existence eighty one years since & months 11 days at Williamstown State of Virginia of Small Fox". And I do desire that the above is a true and perfect transcript from said records, with the exception of the date which is in plain legible figures as follows to wit Feb. 30 1781." I further desire and say that the annexed ancient letters are taken from the same book, and the word Thomas is also in the handwriting of my said father They are marked R. Solomon Thomas
Constitution of Massachusetts March 1st Sept. 1838 New Bedford, Mass I certify that the same document is a true copy of the
W. H. [unclear] John [unclear] Judge of Probate of [unclear]

Jonathan Gould and Hannah Singleton both of Sutton were joined together in Marriage by the Rev. Mr. Ebenezer Chaplin Pastor of the 2 d Chh. in Sutton.
A true copy of record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows July 31 1770 - being thirteen hundred seventy.
Asst Dan l Hemeney Clerk of the Town of Sutton in the County of Worcester Mass. Sept. 1. 1835.
I Dan l Hemeney above named depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk in the Town County and State and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Sutton with the exception above named as certified by me.
Dan l Hemeney Clerk of the Town of Sutton sworn before me
Edw Clarke Justices of the Peace
Sutton Sept. 3 rd 1835

I Anson G Stiles of Milbury in the county of Worcester & Commonwealth by Massach ts do upon oath depose & say - that I am for some years past for some years past Town Clerk of the town of Milbury & am the keeper of the Records of said Milbury - that I find on examining the Records of deaths in said Milbury the following entry upon the book of Records "Solomon Divine - Died July twenty sixth in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty" - and I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record - with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in full legible figures - as follows. July 26 th 1830 - And I the said Anson G. Stiles, above named depose & say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the county of Worcester & state aforesaid - & that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town - with the exception above named - as certified by me and I further depose & say - that I am personally acquainted with Hannah Divine the wife of the said Solomon - that she has never married since the death of the said Solomon - but is now living in said Milbury - a widow -
Anson G. Stiles

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Massachusetts ss. County of Middlesex, —————, This twenty ninth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty eight personally appeared before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County of Worcester the aforesaid Deponent, and after being duly examined & duly cautioned to testify the whole truth & nothing but the truth, made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed, is true — and the said Justice hereby certify that the aforesaid Deponent is a person of truth & veracity
Abner G. Randall. Justice of the Peace

Payment to be made at Boston by R. Yawne, Esq. Agent for paying pension- ers, in the Agency of Mass.
Payable on the 4th March and 4th September in each year. First payment to be  made 31st December, 1838.
Sergt 8 mo 10 R 15. 20  24.00
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A. Vol. 2
R & Sergt 93.88  100
Page 82 by D. Brown
Sergt 8..10 = 141.66 P 15. 20 = 52.22  2.00 00 P 93.88 Clerk.
182.76 + 51.94  234.70

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five years' Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Hannah Dwinell, of the State of Massachusetts widow of Solomon Dwinell who was a private in the War of the Revolution and died on the twenty sixth day of July 1830 - is entitled to receive five years' pension at the rate of Forty five dollars and eighty eight cents per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty eighth day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
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I. Amariah Brigham of Milbury in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being of the age of eighty two years, do upon oath depose & say
That I was personally acquainted with Jonathan Gould formerly of Sutton in said county. That he was a soldier in the War of American Independence that got a few months previous to May 1 st A.D. 1775. The said Jonathan acted as a Minute Man in said Sutton. and on the said 1 st of May or thereabouts, he enlisted in the Company Com- manded by Captain Isaac Bolster and the Regi- ment of Colonel Ebenezer Dyer & served for the period of eight months from said first day of May as an ordinary Sergeant in said Company - in which Company I served with him, during the said period of eight months.
I further depose & say that I was personally acquainted with the wife & widow of said Jonathan, Mrs. Hannah Gould & have known her for more than sixty years. That she is now living in said Milbury. That she is unmarried That she is now about eighty five years of age & sustains an unblemished moral character
Amariah Brigham

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester ss - Town of Milbury
This third day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty eight personally appeared before me the subscribed one of the Justices of the Peace within & for said county of Worcester the aforesaid Deponent, Amariah Prigham, & after being carefully examined & duly cautioned to testify the whole truth & nothing but the truth, made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true
And I the said Justice, hereby that I personally know the aforesaid Deponent & that he is, to the best of my knowledge & belief - a person of truth & good moral character
Abraham G. Randall. Justice of the Peace

I Samuel Bisby of Milbury in the County of Worcester Commonwealth of Massachusetts - being eighty two years of age - do upon oath depose & say
That I was personally acquainted with Jonathan Gould formerly of Sutton in said County; that he was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War; that for a few months previous to May 1 st A.D. 1775 he, the said Jonathan acted as a Minute Man in said Sutton & on the said 1 st of May at Threatants, he enlisted in the company Com- manded by Captain Isaac Bolster, of the Regiment under the command of Ebenezer Durd & served for the period of eight months from said first day of May as an orderly Sergeant in said company - in which said company I served with him, during said period of eight months at Roxbury in said Commonwealth
And I do further depose & say that I was personally acquainted with the wife & widow of said Jonathan - Mrs. Hannah Gould & have known her for more than Sixty years - that she is now living in said Milbury - Unmarried & a widow & that she is a woman of respectability & unblem- ished Moral Character
Sam l Bisby

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss - Town of Millbury
This third day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty-eight personally appeared before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace within & for said county of Worcester - the aforesaid Deponent, Samuel Bigby & after being carefully examined & duly cautioned to testify the whole truth & nothing but the truth, made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true.
And I, the said Justice hereby certify that I personally knew the aforesaid Deponent & that he is, to the best of my knowledge & belief - a person of truth & good moral character.
Abraham G. Randall - Justice of the Peace

Heavenly Father
Act 7th July 1888

Commencement of the War Department. Army of the Potomac.
On the twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight, generally supposed to be the Battle Field of the Battle of Pulaski for some Army of the Potomac, there was a remarkable incident of Military life which I believe in some Army agrees with by five years the Army first duty success according to law, which on her death make the following statement - in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 on title one Act granting half pay and pension to certain widows.
That she is the widow of Solomon Pinnick late of some Military service who was a soldier, a sergeant at the time in the Army of the Revolution, and in pursuance of the United States under the Act of 1818. During the war she was the wife of Jonathan Goodlee, and although she was acquainted with the same David will her services her services, she cannot

State the production of her services. She lived from the time of Nathan's death seven or eight years. For the evidence of these services she respectfully refers to the rolls in the War Department & to the papers in the series case of her husband under the pension law of 1818.
She further declares that she was married to the plaintiff's  her  deceased husband James at said Sutton by the Rev. Eliza- za Chaplin on the first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three and that her husband the deceased Solomon Parnell died at said Millbury on the twenty sixth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three and that she has remained his widow ever since. That she was not married to him previous to her losing the ser- vice, but the marriage took place prior to the first day of January in

The year 1844-45 has been a very unusual one for us, at the house where I have been.
It has been a very unusual the danger was great also rather than before
Mr. B. B. B. judge of the Court of Probate for some reason of business — — — — —

Dec 28.
Com
Harriet D. D. & Co. widow of Sol. D. & Co. private no. 13 - 23
$455.88 per an. at 7 July 1838
sent to Ira Boston, Worcester Mass
Respectfully Washington

London Mar. Dec. 14. 1838
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir,
In reply to Yours of the 10th. inst. I would inform you, that in the case of Hannah Dammitt an applicant for a pension under the Act of 7th. July 1838, and also under the Act of 1836, she claims to take her pension under the former Act, as the widow of Solomon Dammitt. While the respectfully acknowledges in the division of the Atty. General since your appoint- ment, the latter it expressly under- stands that she bears no rights which she may possess under the Act of July 1836 since of March 3. 1837, by virtue of the services of her first husband, Jonathan Gould, in her proposed to submit the consideration of her case, in that behalf to Congress.
I am very Respectfully M c Callum

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. Passim
Washington

Leicester, Mass. Feby. 3. 1839
J L Richards Esq r
Comm. Pension
Sir, By reference to your letters of Nov. 22 and Dec. 20. connected to my letter in common thereto, you will perceive there is a mistake in the enclosed Certificate, which must have been predicated upon the services of her first and not her second husband. She elected to take her pen- sion under the Act of July 7, 1838 as widow of Solomon Dwinell her second husband serving her rights &c., and that pension, as appears by your said letter of Nov. 22, would be $93 88 per annum from March 1836. Please have the correction made and the Certificate forthwith returned to me.
I am very Respectfully
Samuel D. Howland

Concord (Mass.) Dec. 13. 1858
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir,
Your letter to me of the 18 th inst. and of the 18 th Dec. last have been received. I perceive the applicant referred to in your letter, requests you to forward to me the pension certificate, to which she is entitled, as the widow of Solomon Dorrance, under the Act of July 7 1838. At the same time she respectfully asks you to receive the opinion you intimated, that she is not entitled to a pension, by virtue of the services of Jonathan Guller, her first husband, up to the time her pension commenced under the Act of 1836, by virtue of the Act of July 10. 1836 & also the Act Supplementary thereto of March 3. 1837. The applicant does not suppose that she would be entitled to two pensions at the same time. But her right to a pension under the Act of 1836 &c. having been

notice before the passage of the Act of 1838. She respectfully submits that the latter Act cannot operate as a disbarment of any rights acquired under the former Act. She trusts that she may receive a Certificate under the Act of 1836 &c. for her pension up to March, 1836; but if that cannot be done consistently with the views of your department, she desires to be furnished with advice accordingly, in order that she may present her case by petition to Congress, at their present session.
I am very Respectfully
J. H. Jackson

Constitu (Mass.) Sept. 6. 1838
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commission of Pensions
Sir, I herewith transmit to you the papers in the two cases of Hannah Paine and Abigail Paine. Upon examining the facts, I form the opinion that a widow can receive a pension either under the laws of July 10, 1836 Section 3, 1837 or the Act of July 7, 1838. & 1839. However, she cannot take two pensions simultaneously. By law she elects to take her pension under the first acts until she would be entitled under the Act of 1838 as the widow of her former husband, from which time you will see she has discontinued her rights under the first acts, and claims by another declaration under the Act of the 7th July 1838.
Very Respectfully Yours
McClellan

Please to send the Pension certificates of Elizabeth Raper, Betsy Brant, Polly Healy and Hannah Dwinell to Chas. G. Pratts, Reg. Hon. J. S. Edwards.